Education

TRIAL DATABASES:

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, CLCD Enterprise PreK-12 (accessible until May 15, 2022).

CLCD Enterprise PreK-12 Database
The premier academic resource for courses needing to locate Children's and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes millions of fiction/non-fiction titles, thousands of awards and quality reviews including author/title links, lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters to find materials for determining interest & reading levels; selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more.

CLCD Enterprise Database
Enterprise (PreK-12) is designed for academic libraries. Enterprise is designed to be a premier ACADEMIC and RESEARCH resource for courses to locate Children's and Young Adult books and other media. Content contains over one million fiction/non-fictions titles, thousands of awards and quality reviews with author/title links, lesson plans and teaching guides. Search filters help find materials of interest & reading levels; selection trade books based on standards; creating theme focused annotated biographies; reviews; information on developing classroom collections and more....

CDCL QUICK FIND (Click on QUICK FIND AT TOP of database)
QuickFind K-12 is a Readers Advisory database designed to find great children fiction and non-fiction books and media. The database consists of a million PreK-12 titles, with thousands of reviews, awards, reading levels, lesson plans and more. The unique Readers Advisory Topic Search feature and Advanced Search interface allow for easy navigation of the database. The new Award Search feature enable users to view Award winners and nominee, including all years, Sponsor name, Awards detail.

CDCL STEM EXPLORE (Click on STEM EXPLORE AT TOP of database)
STEMExplore database contains the largest collection of STEM-based PreK-12 fiction and nonfiction children and young adult books and media titles available today. It uses distinct STEM qualifiers that resulted in over 230,000 unique titles. CLCD has a new search Topic/Sub-Topic plus age, grade, or reading level qualifiers is ideal for finding the best STEM books for Project Based Learning and Literacy Reading Programs.

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES:

Complete list of subscription databases

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) & EDRS (Educational Document Reproduction Servce)
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. Access is provided to the Base (1996 to present) and Backfile (1993 to 1995) interfaces.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Subjects covered: conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. This Video provides step-by-step instruction on how to narrow your topic, use search filters, and take advantage of the ERIC Thesaurus to target specific resources.

FirstSearch
A general research database that offers increased visibility for Magale Library's holdings, easier access to full text, including full-image articles, and much more. First Search contains 15 selected databases: Article First, Electronic Books (Ebooks), ERIC, MEDLINE, Papers First, SCIPIO, Clase and Periodica, Electronic Collections Online (ECO), GPO Monthly Catalog, Proceedings First (Proceedings), Values of the dbname or db component, WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

MAS Ultra - School Edition
Provides full text for over 550 popular general interest and current events publications and nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 350 full text reference books, nearly 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an image collection of 235,186 photos, maps, and flags.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Buros Institute. 2,000 Tests. Contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines. Entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, description of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. MLAIB includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for 3,500 titles, with full journal names standardized and ISSNs attached. MLAIB contains nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, and historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indication (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. PS offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines.

Professional Development Collection
For professional educators; a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Comprehensive and valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. Full text(native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color), indexing and abstracts for more than 700 journals. Full text as far back as 1965.

Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular educator and administrator journals and magazines to assist educators and administrators.

A FEW RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

Education Subject Guide
Information on materials by subject are in Magale Library's reference area, stacks call numbers, and periodicals. Also provided are web sites, electronic journals, electronic texts, and online associations to further research in each area.
* Education: Curriculum
* Education: Primary & Secondary
* Education: Special & Gifted/Talented

EBSCO Open Access Education Collection
Explore over 700 full text journals related to education.

Institute of Education Sciences

Kennedy Center Arts Edge

Louisiana Department of Education

OASIS—Openly Available Sources Integrated Search
OASIS is a research tool that is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. It aids in finding open content easier to find. Currently it searches 117 sources that contain 388,707 records.

Picturing America Teachers Page (NEH)

U.S. Department of Education